... support high-speed data for multimedia services has been the driving forces for developments in third generation, or 3G, infrastructures. Perhaps a more subtle reason for the need for 3G is the growing ... be different for different users within the cell and between cells. It is used for transmitting the forward access channel (FACH) for access grant and the paging channel (PCH) for paging, both ... diversity, the BER performance improved as the chip rate increased. For a chip rate of 0.96 Mcps, the BER performance was close to the computer simulated BER performance with L=1. The performance with...